Person:Rosalie Smelser (4)

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Name of Deceased: EASON, ROSALIE ELIZABETH Year: 1951 Certificate Number: 004457 County of Death: Ada City: BOISE Date of Death: 12/22/1951 Date of Birth: 03/05/1884

Daily Territorial Enterprise March 13, 1884 Page 3, Column 1

BORN

In Golconda, Nevada, March 5, to the wife of I. Smelser, a daughter

NEWSPAPER:Advocate, date unknown "I am a girl eight years old. I love my heavenly Father and try to be real good. we live twenty miles from any town. There is no church or Sunday-school near us, but I read the Advocate and Berean Leaflet each week. My mother is a Christian adn believes in prayer. My mother is my teacher. I send twenty-five cents to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

                                                                    Rosa S---------------"

We have asked Rosa to put her money with that of an Eastern Sunday-school which is paying the school expenses of a young Hindu boy who has become a Christian and will sometime, if God wills, preach Christ to his own people

It doesn't take many persons to make a Sunday-school. In Rosa's home, miles away from any church, they have a school of two; one teacher and one scholar. But they get along very well. They can have singing and prayer and Bible-reading; they have the same lesson-paper that the rest of us have, and the Advocate somehow gets around to Battle Mountain about one in two weeks. Are there not other homes where schools of two or three mght be held on Sunday? Somebody said that if the mountain couldn't come to Mahomet, then Mahomet would have to get to the mountain. So if for any reason the children cannot get to Sunday-school, let the Christian mothers or neighbors start a little school at home. Perhaps it will grown into a big school some day.

NEWSPAPER:Advocate, date unknown "I like to read the little letters in teh Advocate. My books are teh Third Reader, first geography, first arighmetic, and spelling book. My picture-books are Mother Goose's Rhymes, Babyland, Pansy, Little Men and Little Women, and Wide-Awake. I have a father and mother, one sister, and five brothers. My oldest brother, Jeffie, is at home. My sister Ada is married and lives in Napa City, Cal. One brother is in Arizona and three little brothers at home. I have some little playthings, a nice doll, three tea-sets of little dishes. Well, I will cose this letter, hoping some of the little girls that write to the Advocate will write to me. I like to read my Advocate, and learn little prayers in them and say them to ma. Ma likes to hear prayers. Rosa Smelzer. "